# New Ticket Created by Daniel Green # Please include the string: [perl #127972] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127972 >
>time ./perl6 -e 'my str $a = "a" x 2**29;' real 0m11.982s user 0m11.387s sys 0m0.583s >time ./perl6 -e 'my $a = "a" x 2**29;' real 0m0.137s user 0m0.123s sys 0m0.013s Oddly enough, it's fast when the native string is in a variable. >time ./perl6 -e 'my str $a = "a";my str $b = $a x 2**29;' real 0m0.137s user 0m0.127s sys 0m0.010s >./perl6 -version This is Rakudo version 2016.04-17-g5a14162 built on MoarVM version 2016.04 implementing Perl 6.c.
